Tiros - Sketchbook Thread

[X-Convict]

The tiling wood on the texture at the bottom 25%ish of the map all looks the same, it looks like a waste right now to be re-using 9 of the same wood side, I would either differentiate at least half of those, or get rid of some and help increase the texel density of some of the larger pieces. It seems like you are trying to pull all of this onto one sheet, but a lot of it seems very tiled. You can achieve greater resolution, less memory usage, and faster load times by creating smaller tiling textures to be reused throughout your model and area. Just some thoughts.. It's looking pretty good so far though.

[Tiros]

Ye, the wood is kind of looking the same all over.. adding too pronounced unique details would make the tiling very obvious though.. however, I am still working on it.. felt like taking a break from the house-texture and move on to some other props for the time being.. The chimney ain't even textured at all so far

As for the using smaller textures ad tiling them.. as far as I know, UT3 works better using few large maps, rather than several small ones. And I think retexturing this one is pretty much out of the question at this point, as the wood could still be improved with the currently used method.

Thanks for the C&C though

Just thought I'd throw up a small update here.. as there won't be one for a while.

still got some shadowcasting issues.



Cheers!

[doylle]

Starts to come together nicely. I really like the subtleness in your textures. The unwrap is a bit messy imo, but i wouldn't want to unwrap it myself, looks like hell with all those beams...

I would however baken an AO on a second UV channel, and try to get that in unreal somehow. It doesn't even have to be very detailed, but just some soft shadows here and there would definitely improve the piece...

Keep us updated

[Dennispls]

Turned out better than i expected
Great job man

[Tiros]

Doylle: Thanks man

Well, about the AO, that's what I've been meaning to do, but the tut you sent me only explained about the in-game shadowmap, which was realy no problem to follow at all.. but actually assigning a map in-game to be set on another UV? I have no idea how to do that really.. Think I'll have to take a look around in the settings and see if I find something about UV-channels for individual maps.

/edit: nvm, found the "TexCoord" thingy in the materialeditor


Dennispls:

Turned out better than i expected

Oi, what did you expect exactly?

Cheers

[AlexanderSmith]

Excellent! It looks very cheerful and inviting.

And I agree with doylle, I don't think I'd upwrap that thing for pay, guns are hard enough.

[skidu]

Nice job, have to agree with doylle, the texturing is really great and not over-done with typical dirt and grime.

Also glad to see you find out how to apply the AO map in the 2nd channel - post it up when your done

[Tiros]

Alexander: Thanks mate.. well, about the unwrap.. it wasn't hard really.. just tedious.. as most of my work tends to be

Skidu: Thanks for the comments.. well.. I could post the AO-image.. while actually.. I shouldn't be here infront of the comp at all.. I should be packing.. but it's even worse than unwrapping imo

So, ah well.. I'll throw up that image with the AO and then I'll be off.

Back with an update in a sec.

/edit:



Cheers!

[Tiros]

Man, this thread is starting to look pathetic.. anyways, had a little fun here with trying out parallax mapping, turned out pretty weak in the scren here though, will have to work on it a bit further



Cheers

[sampson]

yep indeedsy looking a little week but otherwise good